Where

Drought in Northeastern Bahia

chão esturricado
Ruínas
Ruíinas
açude seco
açude
açude Tapera
cacimba
vaza barris
angico e açude
arado
açude Monteiro
margem do açude Tapera
nuvens
mandacaru
roça de palma
umbuzeiro
vaca
vaca no jirau
rio Macururé
crepúsculo
mapa

In 2013, a persistent drought ravaged the region of Canudos, in the hinterland of Bahia.
After the massacre suffered in the Canudos War in 1897, a second Canudos was built around 1910 and submerged by the Cocorobó Dam in 1969.
In 2013, for the second time, the drought exposed the ruins of the village church, the first time they reappeared was in the drought between 1994 and 2000.
Many weirs were completely dry.
The brackish and contaminated water that remained in some weirs was unsuitable for animal watering.
Weir Tapera, Santaluz/BA.
'Cacimba' (a underground water source) in the dry bed of a river in the village of Cacimbas, Cansanção/BA.
Vaza-barris River, main tributary of the Cocorobó Dam, what you see in the photo is pond water.<br>About this river, Euclides da Cunha said in Os Sertões: 'Has the fugitive existence from the rainy seasons'.
The waters of this weir help to keep green the leaves of the angico.
Without rain, the plow rests.
Weir Monteiro, the remaining water was brackish and fetid, Queimadas/BA
Wweir Tapera, Santaluz/BA.
Despite the clouds, not a drop of rain. BR116 between Bendegó/BA and Formosa/BA.
Mandacaru, <i>Cereus jamacaru</i>.
'Palma', <i>Opuntia cochenillifera</i>, for animal feed.
'Umbuzeiro', <i>Spondias tuberosa</i>, its root system allows it to store large amounts of water and go through long periods of drought.
Cattle are the main victim of the drought.
The cow, sick and weak, was suppoted on this rack, the extreme measure of its owner to keeep it alive.
Dry bed of the Macururé river.
This essay was carried out in april 2013, in the citys of Canudos, Canudos, Euclides da Cunha, Monte Santo, Cansanção, Nordestina, Queimadas, Macururé e Santaluz.<br>Cartography: Mário Lúcio Sapucahy under map ba_politico1300k_2015.pdf obtained from ibge.gov.br.